(NEW YORK) Dunlap Arthur Scott Diary of a student during the

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(NEW YORK.) Dunlap, Arthur Scott. Diary of a student during the closing months of the Civil War. [91] manuscript diary pages plus 7 pages of memoranda. 4to, original 1/4 calf, minor wear; contents clean and legible. Rutland and Cooperstown, NY, 1 January to 31 December 1865

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Arthur Scott Dunlap (1847-1869) was the son of a prosperous farmer in Rutland, up in far northern New York. 17 years old when the war ended, he did not enlist, but avidly followed war developments. Upon the fall of Richmond he wrote "The great Waterloo of the rebellion has been fought. Richmond is ours fairly, nobly, gallantly men. All honor to our brave soldiers and the skillful commanders" (6 April). Ten days later he wrote a long entry with a heavy black border: "The sad intelligence which reached us yesterday is alas but too true. Our honest, honored noble president killed by the hand of the assassin." The last months of this diary were spent at the short-lived Cooperstown Seminary; he describes his arrival there on 23 August. Provenance: sold by Thomas Cullen to collector Milton R. Slater, 2007.